- Adam’s shaken
- Itineraries and Excel spreadsheets
- Debbie and Adam fall out. Then fall in again
Adam’s shaken
After being ranted at by Brian.
And he has the added guilt of Jennifer being caught between them. Though at least doesn’t think it’s his fault.
[Adam] “We’ve had some set to in the past, but this … he was incredibly hostile … heavens knows we’ve been poles apart on this, the debate has been about our farming philosophes, this was personal”
So Adam is also now thinking that he and Brian can’t work together.
(how would that work? Would Adam have to leave Home Farm with nothing?)
[Ian] “He was angry. You’ll find a way through this, you’ll have to. For you mother’s sake if nothing else”
Jennifer later calls round to see Ian, as she’s very worried about Adam. She and Ian have a bit of a love-in (not literally, obviously) about how good a partner Ian is to Adam.
Ah well. At least part of the family is making nice.
Itineraries and Excel spreadsheets
Jim and Joe certainly have interesting (!) conversations.
Jim’s been researching local single cider varieties for possible trees to start growing in the community orchard. Jim thinks it’s been dull having to work his way through the internet. Joe reckons he should be tasting them first.
[Joe] “Have an itinerary”
[Jim] “Or pub crawl, as it’s more commonly known”
Jim then tells Joe he’s finding it impossible to work out the equivalents for folks working on the community orchard, and getting their fair share of cider made from it.
[Joe] “You don’t need no fancy spreadsheets to tell you some folks is taking advantage … we ain't dishing out our cider on them figures, I can tell you that now”
So Joe offers to sort them out.
Hmmm.
Dodgy dealings afoot?
Debbie and Adam fall out. The fall in again
On Ian’s advice, Adam calls Debbie to make sure she knows his side of the story.
Surprisingly, she hadn’t even heard about the radio of the newspaper article (that’s not like Brian not to get on the phone to her immediately).
Debbie calls Adam stupid.
Seems he did speak to the Echo as well. Some old school pal is a journalist there, and had called Adam just to clarify. Off the record. To get it straight.
Aye right! I agree with Debbie – Adam has been stupid (or, as Ian thinks, is trying to get his voice heard without even realising what he’s doing).
[Debbie] “You know how controversial these big dairies are, throw in a nice juicy family fall out, grrr, Adam, what have you done?”
BUT, Debbie calls back later on to apologise for being “a bit hard” on him.
She still thinks Adam has been an idiot, but can also see that he’s in an impossible situation.
[Debbie] “I know you’d never deliberately set out to hurt the family”
So, that’s Debbie and Adam sorted.
But will Brian ever forgive?
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